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Old 12-26-2008, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Blast View Post
Hey, tv_nut, you've jogged the ol' memory. Funai had the same problem about 10-12 years ago and added a little circuit to eliminate, I believe, the same problem. Some Funai combos shut off with a 'design' that briefly looks like a sine wave on an oscilloscope turned up on it's side (ie: rotated 90 degrees). This may, or may, not be the aforementioned circuit in action.
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I've seen the occasional set that does that - the first time I saw it, I thought it was dangerously close to burning the screen if the raster had collapsed that far before the high voltage was discharged. Apparently it's not really a problem, as I've never seen one burned with that pattern - but it still startles me.
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